ABSTRACT
The author revisits the damaging critique of classical theism's construal of the God-world relation as having a negative outworking in Christian theologies of nature. He argues that there are three theological/philosophical considerations that are essential for furthering the work and the larger project of ecojustice that are helpfully illumined by Alfred North Whitehead's philosophy. These considerations are: the alterity of nature, the integrity of nature, and the subject status of nature. Whitehead's treatment of creativity which applies to both God and the world may also have potential for re-casting another set of poles in the traditional dualistic framework for thinking of God and the world. As Whitehead insisted, God is not to be treated as an exception to all metaphysical principles, invoked to save their collapse. Whitehead's concept of God, in its panentheism, dual transcendence, and shared creativity, presents a pathway for the conceiving of God and the God-world relation in ways that maintain the relational transcendence of God.
